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Old 09-04-2014, 02:05 PM
Melody Melody is offline
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How to get real time position of a object which is connected to a haptic device

How to get real time position of a object which is connected to a haptic device?

My haptic device is phantom omni

I tried to print it out, it shows [0,0,0] all the time.

I need to read the real time position and then apply different functions based on different positions.
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Old 09-08-2014, 02:27 PM
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Do you get changing positions with the following code?

Code:
import viz
import vizact
viz.go()

sensable = viz.add('sensable.dle')
device = sensable.addHapticDevice()

def printPosition():
	print device.getPosition()
	
vizact.ontimer(0,printPosition)
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Old 09-11-2014, 09:23 AM
Melody Melody is offline
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Thanks Jeff.

May I ask how can I get the real-time spring force I applied?
I tried <effect>.getMagnitude(). But what I get is a constant I set in addSpringEffect.

<device>.addSpringEffect( gain=None
,magnitude=None
,position=None
,referenceFrame=None )
Position here represents the effect position, right?

And what is the relationship between magnitude and spring force? In F = k(P-X), magnitude is the max spring force?
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Old 09-11-2014, 02:16 PM
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May I ask how can I get the real-time spring force I applied?
After you've defined and enabled the spring effect you could create your own function that returns the spring effect force based on F = k(P - X). Something like the following:

Code:
import vizmat

def getSpringForce():

	#get effect position and gain.
	P = springEffect.getPosition()
	k = springEffect.getGain()
	
	#get haptic device position
	X = device.getPosition()
	
	#return force
	return k * vizmat.Distance(P,X)
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Position here represents the effect position, right?
Yes, the position value you pass in when you define the spring effect is the effect position.

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And what is the relationship between magnitude and spring force? In F = k(P-X), magnitude is the max spring force?
The magnitude of the effect force is capped at the magnitude value you define.
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Old 09-15-2014, 02:35 PM
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Thank you so much!!!
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